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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Glorious week on the Northumbrian coast. Cannae beat it here when the sun shines! 🏰☀️🌊❤️

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Praying for our new Bishop-elect as she prepares to move from Ely to @dioceseofedinburgh.bsky.social ! 🙏

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

This visual is the content I am here for! 👏👏👏 #bm100

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Wow. 70% attrition on Loop 1… better than last year, but not much! Now to work out who’s who, maybe?! #bm100 #brutalbimble

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Will Roberts @willbaldlygo.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Now we’re serious #bm100

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FrenchieResistance @frenchieresistance.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I’ve got you. Mural for Alex Pretti in Seattle by Topsy

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Marie Curie (w/husband Pierre) discovered radium #OTD in 1898. It revolutionized #science & launched radioactivity, nuclear physics & cancer therapy. They won the 1903 Nobel in Physics & she became the only person to win a Nobel in 2 science categories with her 1911 Nobel in Chemistry. #WomenInSTEM

A split black-and-white historical photograph featuring two portraits of Marie Curie. On the left: A formal studio portrait from 1895 showing a young Pierre Curie and Marie Curie standing side by side. Pierre, on the left, is a man with a short beard and mustache, wearing a dark three-piece suit with a white shirt, with a serious expression. Marie, on the right, is a young woman with her hair pulled back in an updo, wearing a high-necked dark dress with puffed sleeves and fur trim at the collar, gazing directly at the camera with a calm, composed expression. On the right: A later portrait from around 1920 of an older Marie Curie alone, facing the camera directly. She has gray hair styled loosely and pulled back, and is wearing a dark blouse with a distinctive patterned bow tie at the collar. Her expression is serious and resolute.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Well… I absolutely respect that. But as a single person who lives and usually spends Christmas alone, personally I really like the tradition of pausing at the end of Christmas Eve, toasting the feast, and seeing colleagues near and far doing the same. A peaceful, joyful Christmas to you! 🎄⭐️

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

New ministry, new flat, same bottle of malt (Springbank) as last year, I think! Merry Christmas! 🥃🎄⭐️ #ClergyMaltClub

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

For at the moment: 1. When it’s hard to go out: consistency beats motivation 2. When time is tight: something is better than nothing 3. Every day: Gratitude - there are people who would give anything to be able to do this. 4. If I miss a session: that’s ok. Tomorrow is a new day.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

What did you do in your holidays? I’m doing Thought for the Day! Catch me live on BBC Radio Scotland at about 07.23, or catch up on Good Morning Scotland on BBC Sounds. #GMS

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Bishop John Armes @bishopjohnarmes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

There is so much to celebrate about the life of Pope Francis, and therefore also a deep sense of loss at his passing. He truly set an example of faithfulness to Christ. And how amazing that he has died in the context of Easter with its message of hope for salvation and new life. (1/3)

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

250% uplift in communicant numbers today compared to a ‘normal’ Sunday at St Anne’s Dunbar! Plus a baptism and the blessing of a civil partnership. I think we can say ‘He is risen!’. Oh, and a liturgical lace change, just in time for the festivities! ⚓️

Patent black doc marten boots with white laces, standing on grass.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Holy Saturday, and I literally found Jesus on Dunbar High St! I thought he was supposed to be busy harrowing hell?!

Tiny Jesus held by Pausingplace, with pavement in the background.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Give me Holy Saturday over Christmas Eve any day. #HolySaturday

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Lest we forget how far the world has still to go, I just received a delivery (at home, in Scotland) from a driver who saw my dog collar and exclaimed (in broad Glaswegian)… “A wumman minister?! That the modern world, eh?!” Reader, the Kirk has been ordaining women since 1968! 🤦‍♀️

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

From the Canons: “while the lectionary is based on the New Revised Standard Version, any version of the Bible which has not been prohibited by lawful authority may again be used. Currently, no version of the Bible has been prohibited by lawful authority.”

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I saw this debated elsewhere recently. I think the answer is it’s a modern innovation… and not universally loved. There is apparently a Chrism Mass in the 10th century Gregorian Sacramentary, but no mention of renewal of ordination vows. @thurible.net may be able to expand…

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What with all the toxic stuff going on in the world, I’ll take a rainbow whenever I can find one.

A street leading to the sea, with a yellow house on one side, a white one on the other, and beyond them, in the ocean and overhead, a rainbow.

Double half rainbow over a golf course and a shoreline.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Different world… 🤷‍♀️

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

San Francisco gets an A+ for presentation and form.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Nine years of Oswald Doglet! 🐶❤️🎂

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Diocese of Edinburgh @dioceseofedinburgh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

❓ Heard of Dunbar Debt Advice Service? 🤝 The inter-church collaboration involves St Anne's Dunbar, the Salvation Army and other churches. 💷 Visit our bio link for the East Lothian Courier article on how the Service has helped 97 clients. 💰 They support anyone in need. Google 'Dunbar Debt Advice'.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This is an observation of the locals, incidentally… not what I’m doing! 🙈😂

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Edinburgh, 11 degrees and sunny. Taps aff!

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Farewell session with the youth at Harbour Lights Xtra this afternoon. These Friday sessions have been some of the most fun times in my ministry in Dunbar. As you can see, sometimes you can have your cake AND eat it. But I lost my pool shark crown - you can tell by T’s smile!! ⚓️ #anglican

Pausingplace (trying to eat a whole cake) and some smiley teenagers.

Cake reading ‘thanks Diana. God bless and farewell’.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Good questions. I hope you have a wonderful time in California! Blessings on your own transition.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Yes, I can imagine this is going to be really useful. Thank you!

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is really useful. Thank you. My diocese doesn’t provide anything like this. It’s reassuring to see the things I’ve been doing seem to be right… I find it really helpful to have a touchstone and a checklist to go back to when things become a bit of a whirlwind.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Wow! Six weeks would be a dream! I have managed 2.5 weeks this time… tho I’m not moving a long way, and I know the city I’m going to, which helps. I am hoping to prioritise spending good time listening and getting to know people as I begin.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This is helpful. Thank you! Do people tend to respect it?

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Wonderful. Thank you! Methodism does this sort of stuff better than the SEC does! 😉

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

My hand over pack is coming on nicely… I’m kind of surprised no-one has come up with a check list. Does the Methodist Church have one? 🤷‍♀️

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

‘Creative ignorance’! I like that!

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I can think of a couple of things that I wish I could *undo* from that particular season’s changes… what I might do differently next time is a whole other question!

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Also, this was definitely true in Dunbar. But here I had the unusual gift of receiving a building that had been vacant for a year, so changes were quite easy to make.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

That sounds a lot like politics?!

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Ps - I have obvs already given this some thought… but I’m interested in what others might prioritise! 🤷‍♀️😊

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I grew up in the Eastern Scottish Borders. I survived on the shipping forecast on the radio and Look North on the tv… and people wonder why I don’t identify more strongly with Scottish nationalism. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤷‍♀️😂

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